Petition

C. H. Lee, et al., to Unknown

Place of Creation
Bracken County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG25-167 to MG25-168
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2379
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FTP Identifier
32210779

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Dates
1861
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Citation

C. H. Lee, et al., to Unknown, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-2379 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Govnor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the undersigned Citizens of Bracken County would respectfully represent unto your excellency that at the last ^Term^ term ^1861^ of the Bracken Circuit Court in the case of the Commonwealth against Llewlyn Galaspie the jury empanneled in in said case fined the said Galspie one hundred and four dollars from the evidence and under the instructions of the court for the obstructions of a public road in said County by removing his fence and placing a portion of it in the track of the old road and at One point cross the same and let it remain there for the space of one hundred and four days and at the same time cut a road out side of Said fence and placed said road on as good ground with the exception of one place as the Old road. and thereby made it a shorter rout, said road ran over the land of Galaspie and mostly through the woods and in a sparcely settled neighbourhood and that the road is not generally used by persons except on horseback and on foot, notwithstanding said Galspie obstructed the road as aforesaid we believe the public was not injured by said obstruction, and the said Galspie being a

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poor man with a wife and a number of Children to support, we the undersigned citizens would respectfully ask your Excellency to remit said fine or so much thereof as the law will permit.

Yours respectfully

C. H. Lee
G W Holton
Wm Fallin
James Brown
Augustus Wood
Robt Cabell
Cornelius Mcavoy
Edward Flood
T F Marshall
Henry Frank Jr
Thomas Gleeson
Andrew Adams
Challos C B dally
Simon Jessobs
J. P. Overturf
H A MClenahan
Elizah M [...]
Hinson Owens
H C McCrahan
A Pinckard
W Adams
Robt Bradford
vanburen Melooy
J B Taylor
S B Lenney
J. E Armer

L M. Perkins
B, C, Clayton
J J Anderson
John Hook
James Best
John W Ellis
Wm S Metcalfe
James. M. Mitchell
Augustus Galbraith
Porter Jett
W McDonnald
Henry. E. Ware
Peter Banfield
Luke Flood
Patrick Flood
Samuel Case
R [Mcelfresh]
William Gunn
A, P, Florer
N, E, doyle
L. J. Bradford
Thomas Hackett
George Poe
John W Fosar

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T.. B.. Grigson
Alfred S Frank
James R Norris
William Wells
M, L, Dittz
W P Dittz
J W McGill
A. B Thomas
J S Quinlan
James Black
Samuel Moyers
Wm Figgins
J S Morford
H H Perkins
J R Swan
W. N. Doree
R. P Crupper
Stanfield Perkins
M Fonk
O, S, Cart
Nimrod Camben
Jos Dauiphan
G. W Mitchel
Henry Ogdon
G W Marshall a Juror
Wm B Harris
E K Northcutt
J. M Peare
John W Bendict
Thomas P handley
William Tevis
Ezra Ham

John W Semant
W H Reynolds x Sheriff
Ewd Summers
Jos. A. Colvin
Mikle Rise
young Mikle Rise
James Adams
John H Sellers
P, L, Blades
Wm Bodring
William Thomas
Thomas [...]
Samuell Mclanahan
William. B Anderson
W. A. Doniphan
J. C. Burns
Peter Workman
David Gort
W.. S.. Elliott
Eli Watson Jureman
G W, Marshall Juror
Jonethan Hedgcrock Juror
Thomas Perkins Juror
Saml. L. Marshall Juror
P. M Perkins Juror

[Page 4] A Mors Sr
Peter, Mann
N R Culp
Daniel Mann
D C Askin
D T Jest
G, W, Asbury
Samuel Calloway
E C Elliott
Wm, T, Mitchell
Wm maines
N S Hundley